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Henri Matisse was born in 1869 in Nord-Pas de Calais region of France, and died in 1954. He originally studied law, but switched to studying art in 1891 at the Academie Julian in Paris, studying under William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Gustave Moreau, but soon came under the influence of the Post-Impressionists. He later became a leader among a group of artists called the Fauvists, which included Andre Derain, Roaul Dufy, and Maurice Vlaminck. He was also a close friend of Pablo Picasso. He lived and painted largely in the south of France, on the French Riviera, which likely influenced his choice of the bolder palette that came to characterize the work of the Fauvists in general. [More...]

Amedeo Modigliani was born 1884 to a Jewish family in Livorno, Italy, and died in 1920. While born and raised in Italy, he moved to Paris, France, in 1906, where he lived for the rest of his life at the age of 35. He suffered from tubercolosis from the age of 16, which eventually took his life. He first studied art at the Free School of Nude Studies in Florence and the Institution of the Fine Arts in Venice. Modigliani was influenced by Toulouse-Lautrec and Cezanne. [More...]

Marc Chagall was born in 1887 in to a Jewish family in Vitebsk, Belarus, then part of Russia, and died in 1985. Marc Chagall is actually a Russified form of his birth name, which was Moishe Segal. He studied art under Leon Bakst at the Zvyagintseva School in St. Petersburgh. Chagall moved to Paris, France, in 1911, where he associated with other artists in the Montparnasse district. He later returned to Russia during the Russian Revolution, eventually becoming a Commissar of Art for the Vitebsk region, where he also founded an art school, but disillusioned with the Soviet system, returned to Paris in 1923. Following the German occupation of France in World War II, he fled Paris and then France, eventually settling in the United States in 1941. He returned to France in 1946. [More...]